Chimney Stacks Heaton Hall.
The hall has been a Grade I Listed Building since 1952 and has been called "the finest house of its period in Lancashire".
It is built of sandstone and stuccoed brick, in a traditional Palladian design with the entrance on the north side and the facade on the south.
The landscaping was designed to make the most of the uninterrupted views of the rolling hills across to the Pennines. An important feature of this was the ha-ha, used to keep the grazing animals, so important to the landscaping, away from the formal lawns, with a barrier that was all-but invisible from the house.
The state rooms include the Library, the Music Room, Dining Room, and upstairs, a rather rare Etruscan Room. The rooms of the hall were exquisitely finished by the finest artists and craftsmen of the period, with most of the furnishings and mahogany doors being made by Gillows of Lancashire. Most of the decorative paintings, the Pompeiian Cupola Room and the case for the chamber organ built by Samuel Green, were the work of Italian artist, Biagio Rebeca. The ornate plasterwork was created by the firm of Joseph Rose II of York.
It is built of sandstone and stuccoed brick, in a traditional Palladian design with the entrance on the north side and the facade on the south.
The landscaping was designed to make the most of the uninterrupted views of the rolling hills across to the Pennines. An important feature of this was the ha-ha, used to keep the grazing animals, so important to the landscaping, away from the formal lawns, with a barrier that was all-but invisible from the house.
The state rooms include the Library, the Music Room, Dining Room, and upstairs, a rather rare Etruscan Room. The rooms of the hall were exquisitely finished by the finest artists and craftsmen of the period, with most of the furnishings and mahogany doors being made by Gillows of Lancashire. Most of the decorative paintings, the Pompeiian Cupola Room and the case for the chamber organ built by Samuel Green, were the work of Italian artist, Biagio Rebeca. The ornate plasterwork was created by the firm of Joseph Rose II of York.
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Heaton Park Manchester.
Photographer:
D B Flynn